Originally Posted by
drew
My Z97 Mobo went tits up on Sunday....
So I thought, ok, I'll just find another 1150 board, so I can re-use my 4790K and 32gb ram...
Oh, how naive of me.
So I buy a Z370. Which is an 1151 Intel, and DDR4. So I buy an 8700K Coffee Lake, and 32GB DDR4.
THEN I find out that Windows 7 doesn't work with that.
So I bought Windows 10. This was all in the span of 2 days. fucking hell.
I also got a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD, and a COrsair H1001 Cooler... I guess "cheap fix" wasn't in the cards.
Basically, I built an entirely new machine, minus the spare drives, case and GPU. I ended up not even using the new SSD, I may try to take it back. I've got an 840 in it now. I bought it in case there was a way to save shit on it. $150 "what if".
I've not dicked with Windows 10 enough yet to have a verdict, other than I miss my classic theme immensely.
I've done fuck all with overclocking/etc, probably won't. Maybe that novelty's finally worn off. CPU is 3.7/4.something boost. I may round that up to 4.0 base and call it a day.
I'm just wondering how many of my other programs won't work now.